First post, by justajeffy
I put together a system and I can't for the life of me get Win98SE installed without seeing one of an assortment of crashes.
eg..
Fatal exception 0E has occured at 0028:C0038D1E in VXD VFAT(01)
General Protection fault in module SETUPX.DLL
WIN98SETUP caused a General Protection Fault in module USER.EXE
MSGSRV32 caused in invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL
After configuring date/time, I cannot get past "Upgrading system settings" without a crash. Though sometimes it crashes even before then. Pretty randomly. Hoping maybe someone can help.
basic system specs:
AOpen AX59Pro
K6-2 550
256MB pc100
Voodoo 3000 AGP
Audiodrv ESS 1868f
10GB Seagate HD (ST310014A)
My install procedure involves:
Format c: with super fdisk, then did a surface scan. No errors.
Boot off Win98 Cd to dos prompt.
Copy win98 dir to C:\
run setup in c:\win98
Tried:
-clearing mbr first (using super fdisk) then let Win98 setup partition and format the drive before install.
-swapped out the video card. (Replaced Voodoo 3 with MX 440)
-removed sound card completely.
-updated the bios from 2.34 to 2.36
-lowered AGP aperture to 4M
I've done a full run of Memtest86+ and it passed with no errors with 256MB installed.
Pulled one of the mem sticks anyway, and tried again. Then, keeping only one dimm slot populated, have tried with 4 different 128MB Dimms. Still no luck.
Arggh!